Railway-rail stay.



PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905.

' H. H. SiONENBURG.

RAILWAY RAIL STAY. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 17, 1904.

' Ilmrnn STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

HIRAM H. SPONENBURG, OF WADSWORTH, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR ONE-HALF TO EDWARD LAAS, OF OTTUMWA, IOWA.

RAILWAY-RAIL STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,104, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed September 17, 1904. Serial No. 224,796.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM H. SPONENBURG, of Vadsworth, in the county of Lake, in the State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway-Rail Stays, of

which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices applied to the rails of railways for the purpose of preventing longitudinal creeping of said rails.

' The object of the invention is to provide a rail-staying device which shall be readily applied to the rail and efficient in resisting the aforesaid creeping of the rail and simple and inexpensive in construction; and to that end the invention consists in the novel construction of the rail-stay hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a transverse section of the rail provided with my improved rail-stay. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, indicating by an arrow the direction in which the rail tends to creep. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line or 00 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detached plan view of the strap or bar by means of which the rail-gripping jaws are held in engagement with the rail, and Fig. 5 is an inner face view of the separately-formed rail-gripping jaw.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

R represents the railway-rail, and A the cross-tie which supports the said rail.

Z1 and 0 denote the rail-gripping jaws of the rail-stay. The jaw 6 is formed directly on one of the ends of the strap or bar d, which extends across the under side of the rail R, and

is formed with a screw-threaded cylindrical.

jaws on the rail. To obtain a more secure hold on the rail, I form the groove 0' with serrations, as shown at 0 in Fig. 5 of the drawings, which serrations become embedded in the edge of the rail when the nut g is thoroughly tightened on the end portion 6 of the strap (Z.

The end portion 0, which is an extension of the strap d, is disposed at an angle to the main portion of said strap, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. This construction causes the jaw Z) to be held normally out of contact with the side of the cross-tie, while the base of the jaw c bears on the side of said cross-tie. The result is that when the rail R is subjected to severe end pressure the jaw 6 is forced toward the cross-tie and causes the front edge of said jaw to bite the edge of the rail, and thus obtain a firmer grip thereon. To allow 'the jaw Z) to move as aforesaid without disntegral flange h, which bears on the side of the cross-tie to resist the creeping of the rail. A web 71 extends from the block to the bottom of the flange h to brace said flange.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A rail-stay consisting of a strap disposed transversely under the rail, a rail-gripping jaw on one end of said strap, and a block connected of the strap, a depending flange engaging the I a flaring recess at the inner end of the apercross-tie, and a nut on said strap extension as l ture receiving the tapered portion of the strap,

set forth. a flange depending from the block and bear- 3. A rail-stay consisting of a strap disposed ing on the side of the cross-tie, and a nut 0n 5 5 transversely under the rail and formed at one the strap extension all constructed and comelnd With an integral 1rail-grippigg jaW and at bined in the manner st forth.

tie opposite enc Wit] a tapere portion ter- 7 minating in a screw-threaded extension dis- HIRAM SPONENBURG' posed at an angle to the strap, a block formed Witnesses: to with a rail-gripping groove, an aperture be- W. (J. UP'roN,

10W said groove receiving the strap extension, FRED A. DURST. 

